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What are Line Managers for?

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REDLETTER
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What are Line Managers for?

Post by REDLETTER »

Went to have a "private" word with the Lino today.

Explained the problems............all 3 of them.

Only to be told "Can't deal with them as I'm in another DO on Monday, See the DOM then"

So 3 problems - none sorted!

WTF!

I felt like saying "write them down and leave a note for the DOM"

But that would make me Management Material! Bit too much thinking to qualify :Very Happy :Very Happy
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by dohnut »

REDLETTER wrote:Went to have a "private" word with the Lino today.

Explained the problems............all 3 of them.

Only to be told "Can't deal with them as I'm in another DO on Monday, See the DOM then"

So 3 problems - none sorted!

WTF!

I felt like saying "write them down and leave a note for the DOM"

But that would make me Management Material! Bit too much thinking to qualify :Very Happy :Very Happy
Know what you mean , constantly get fobbed of, they always pass the buck to another lino, bunch of retarded inbreeds.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by Eric Cantona »

Managers are changing offices that quick nowadays they are basically F*****G things up, like Holiday Sheets, Absent records, days off, they tend to blame it on previous managers, all they are interested in is getting the mail out and going home, everything else is tell me tomorrow nowadays.
They are like a load of lions at Managers meetings and the area Manager throws pieces of steak to them every now and again to get the hunger of them…
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by mdm »

Good question, you've got me there. :oops:
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by Big Daz »

My DOM has been a manager at our D.O for eight years now, sounds like a record in the making.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by baleout »

Best way to focus a Line Managers mind is to tell him your not doing Absorbtion.

That gets their full attention.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by viking »

In our office the linos are responsible for looking after the "clip board".We have three linos, one writes(if he can) on the clip board, the second one reads it , and the third one just looks on in amazement at how clever the other two are :left:
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by taurus88 »

Line managers at our place are there to beg, connive, coerce, bully, bribe, blackmail or badger you into doing half a round.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by youwot!!!!! »

"WHAT ARE LINE MANAGERS FOR?"

easy,to bollox up the service.
that was an easy question,can someone try to make them a bit harder in future!!!!!
who the hell invests £2 billion into a servic and makes it worse?????????????
you really couldn't make it up!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by DGP1 »

youwot!!!!! wrote:"WHAT ARE LINE MANAGERS FOR?"

easy,to bollox up the service.
that was an easy question,can someone try to make them a bit harder in future!!!!!
OK then - What are the ingredients of Viagra (you did ask for a hard one :nervous ).
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by Straight4ward »

Tut, tut! Naughty Room, DGP.

What are line managers for?
Why for reeling in, of course. If you can't wind 'em up, you ain't doing your job properly.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by fishtank »

Straight4ward wrote:Tut, tut! Naughty Room, DGP.

What are line managers for?
Why for reeling in, of course. If you can't wind 'em up, you ain't doing your job properly.
That's pretty much what they get used for at our place....we wind them up....the DOM kicks their arse....we wind them up again...i woudn't be one for twice what they get....not that i feel sorry for them...most of them deserve it. :neutral:
good times, bad times you know I've had my share
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

DGP1 wrote:
youwot!!!!! wrote:"WHAT ARE LINE MANAGERS FOR?"

easy,to bollox up the service.
that was an easy question,can someone try to make them a bit harder in future!!!!!
OK then - What are the ingredients of Viagra (you did ask for a hard one :nervous ).
VIAGRA 25 mg, 50 mg or 100mg film-coated tablets Sildenafil citrate. The active substance of VIAGRA is Sildenafil each tablet contains 25 mg, 10 mg or 100 mg of Sildenafil (as citrate). The other ingredients are: Tablet core: microcrystalline cellulose, calcium hydrogen phosphate (anhydrous), croscarmellose, magnesium stearate. Film coat hypermellose, titanium dioxide (E171), Lactose, triacetin, indigo carmine aluminum lake (E132). Marketing Authorization Holder and Manufacturing Authorization Holder

Line Managers are the cannon fodder for the Profit and Bonus grabbing managers. They are there to give us the bad news and to force us to do the impossible, unpalatable, and unworkable on a daily basis. They are also there to form a barrier between the workers and upper tiers of management so that the aforesaid managers truly believe that the stories in the courier are a proper and true reflection of the morale in offices up and down the country.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by dvbuk55 »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
DGP1 wrote:
youwot!!!!! wrote:
VIAGRA 25 mg, 50 mg or 100mg film-coated tablets Sildenafil citrate. The active substance of VIAGRA is Sildenafil each tablet contains 25 mg, 10 mg or 100 mg of Sildenafil (as citrate). The other ingredients are: Tablet core: microcrystalline cellulose, calcium hydrogen phosphate (anhydrous), croscarmellose, magnesium stearate. Film coat hypermellose, titanium dioxide (E171), Lactose, triacetin, indigo carmine aluminum lake (E132). Marketing Authorization Holder and Manufacturing Authorization Holder
TBH TBT - he knew that - he makes his own.
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Re: What are Line Managers for?

Post by youwot!!!!! »

DGP1 wrote:
youwot!!!!! wrote:"WHAT ARE LINE MANAGERS FOR?"

easy,to bollox up the service.
that was an easy question,can someone try to make them a bit harder in future!!!!!
OK then - What are the ingredients of Viagra (you did ask for a hard one :nervous ).

the active substance is sildenafil citrate.
you should have checked with your gp before using it dgp!
who the hell invests £2 billion into a servic and makes it worse?????????????
you really couldn't make it up!!!!!!!!!!!